Remember when Netflix first came out with its suite of distributed components? It included Eureka for service discovery, Hystrix for circuit breaking, and Zuul for intelligent routing. Netflix was running on an AWS infrastructure back then, but the infrastructure didn’t exist for Netflix to manage its microservice ecosystem. The industry has come to describe the Netflix components within the larger context of a service mesh.

AWS recently introduced App Mesh, a highly-available set of services that integrate with the AWS ecosystem and provide the capabilities Netflix was looking for back in the day.

In this post, we provide an introduction to AWS App Mesh and show a quick tutorial of bringing a reference microservice into an AWS App Mesh.